Santiago de Compostela: Galician ArchaeoPots, 2013. — 264 pp. — ISBN 978-84-941537-0-9.The 15th International Bell Beaker Conference: From Atlantic to Ural, held in Poio (Pontevedra, Galicia, Spain) in May 2011, brought together one hundred researchers from 17 European countries, presenting the most recent advances on the transition between the Neolithic and Bronze Age, (2nd half of the 3rd and beginning of the 2nd millennium BC), in particular on the Bell Beaker phenomenon that spread all over Europe and North Africa from 2500 BC onwards.
The Conference focused on material culture in relation to the mobility of populations, following on from the efforts of the previous meeting held in Scotland in May 2010, which was dedicated to isotopic analyses recently carried out on skeletons, showing that population movements were rare and over short distances in the UK. Could circulations of items, ideas or craftsmen explain the unprecedented homogeneity of material culture observed throughout Europe?A corded-mixed Bell Beaker vase at the monumental enclosure of Forca, Maia, North of Portugal (Bettencourt, A. M. S.; Luz, S.).
The Dolmen of Dombate in its bell beaker phase. Ceramic styles and occupation of space (Bello Diéguez, J.M.; Lestón Gómez, M.; Prieto Martínez, M.P.).
Bell beaker findings in rock art contexts (Seoane-Veiga, Y.; Prieto Martínez, M. P.; Dal Zovo, C.).
Achievements and blunders in the application archaeometric techniques for the study of a chalcolithic site with Bell Beakers (Blasco, C.; Liesau, C.; Ríos, P.).
The Bell Beaker funeral group from Sierentz Les Villas d’Aurèle (Haut-Rhin, France) (Vergnaud, L.).
Two new burial sites of Bell Beaker Culture with an exceptional find from Eastern Moravia /Czech Republic (Peška, J.).
Funerary Rituals, Social Relations and Diffusion of Bell Beaker Csepel-Group (Endrődi, A.).
New archaeobotanical Data of the Bell Beaker Csepel-Group (Gyulai, F.).
New dating of the Bell Beaker Horizon in the region of Madrid (Ríos, P.).
Bell Beaker influence in the Early Bronze Age on the basis of latest discoveries in Rozbórz, in south-eastern Poland (Jarosz, P.; Mazurek, M.; Okoński, J.; Szczepanek, A.).
Where does the East meet the West? A find of a wrist guard in the Republic of Moldova (Demchenko, T.).
Two beaker vessels from Maxey Quarry, Cambridgeshire (Gibson, A.; Snape, N.).
Hut structures from the bell beaker horizon: housing, communal or funerary use in the Camino de las Yeseras site (Madrid) (Liesau, C.; Rios, P.; Aliaga, R.; Daza, A.; Blasco, C.).
The Beginning of Terminal Lithic Industries in Moravia (Kopacz, J.).
The Bell beaker culture in Eastern Central Europe and silicite (flint) Axes (Přichystal, A.; Šebela, L.).
Bell Beaker metal and metallurgy in Western Europe (Labaune, M.).
Technology of Bell Beaker pottery in Bohemia (Neumannova, K.).
Bell Beaker ware from Estremadura, Portugal, and its likely influence on the appearance of Maritime Bell Beaker ware (Carvalho-Amaro, G.).
Unity and Circulation : what underlies the homogeneity of Galician bell beaker ceramic style? (Prieto Martínez, M. P.).
Beaker occupation at Cavenham Quarry, Suffolk (Gibson, A.; Gill, D.).
